Died. Eugene Jolas, 55, New Jersey-born author, poet, and cofounder (with Elliot Harold Paul in 1927) of the avant-garde Paris literary review transition; of acute nephritis; in Paris. The first to print James Joyce's Work in Progress (which later became Finnegans Wake), transition was also among the first in English with the work of Franz Kafka and Andre Gide (see RELIGION). To such U.S. literary expatriates of the '205 as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Erskine Caldwell, Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Hamilton Basso and William Carlos Williams--all glad to work in transition's experimental laboratory--Editor Jolas never paid more than $1 a page ("Anybody who would write and not want payment was always a better friend of transition").

Died. Henry Herschel Brickell, 62, writer (Cosecha Colombiana), editor (O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, 1941-51), and for two years (1944-46) assistant chief of the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation in charge of Latin America; by his own hand (carbon monoxide); in Ridgefield, Conn.

Died. Albert D. Lasker, 72, advertising man, chairman of the U.S. Shipping Board after World War I, cofounder with his wife of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation for educational and medical research; of cancer; in Manhattan (see BUSINESS).

Died. Marie Odet Jean Armand de Chapelle de Jumilhac, 76, Due de Richelieu, the title conferred by Louis XIII on his Prime Minister, Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, who passed it on to a grandnephew, Jean de Vignerot, ancestor of the last Due de Richelieu; after a month's illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Tillman Hooks, 78, adopted (when she was five) daughter of Jefferson Davis, President (1861-65) of the Confederate States of America; in New Orleans. Mrs. Hooks came to live at Beauvoir, the Davis Gulf Coast home, while her foster father was writing The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, later married Henry Hooks, a Texas railroad agent.

Died. Captain Robert Huntington, 83, who went to sea at nine as cabin boy, skippered sailing ships around Cape Horn, and in 1921, from his small Manhattan radio station (KDKF), first adopted the call for medical assistance: MEDICO--a signal which takes precedence over all other calls at sea except S O S; on Staten Island, N.Y.

Died. Dr. John Dewey, 92, renowned American philosopher and educator, major prophet of progressive education ("learning by doing"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan (see EDUCATION).

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